Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role? A 1.1 Duty of care is a legal obligation for each individual in the health and social care setting that requires them to adhere to a standard of reasonable care. Ensuring they don’t put their service users or themselves in any danger. In the workplace there are policies and procedures‚ agreed standards‚ codes of practice and other legislation a care worker should follow. In a care workers job role you would be responsible
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Unit 4 Principles for implementing Duty of care in Health‚ Social care or Children’s and Young Persons settings. 1.1 Duty of care means that I provide care and support to individuals‚ within the law and also within the policies‚ procedures and agreed rules of my workplace It is about keeping Young peoples independence‚ to support and enable them to live within an environment free from prejudice and safe from abuse. All young people are entitled to their own opinions‚ choices and we should
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As a support worker‚ several key principles‚ laws‚ and policies act as a guide in my line of duty in safeguarding every individual when care services have been offered or engaged in any form. These are: The Care Act 2014 (UK): The prevention of harm‚ neglect‚ and abuse is monitored by local governing authorities. They make sure negligence is prevented by organisations offering care services to any individual. Care standards and plans are in the best interest of the service user‚ with their wishes
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HNC SOCIAL CARE VALUES ESSAY This essay will examine how social care values and principles influence practice. My own value base was influenced by my parents and extended family initially. As I was growing up teachers and peers also influenced my values. Amongst some of the values I live my life by are having self-respect and being respectful of others; being trustworthy‚ honest and truthful; being non-judgemental. I was always encouraged to work hard and do well at school which would help me
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Social Security & Health Care Outline 1. Social Security a. Introduction: Social Security: What is it? b. History of Social Security i. Pre social Security era 1. Greek 2. Medieval European 3. The “Poor Laws” ii. Early American Social Security 4. Colonial 5. Civil war 6. Great Depression c. Modern American Social Security iii. When was it established?
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and process that affect the overall distribution of disease and health. Health care and public health systems are the social determinants of health and they are mostly responsible for health inequities. Health inequities link closely with social determinants of health. Public Health recognizes that individual-level interventions must occur along with approaches that address community and societal levels of social determinants of health. As part of the President’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative
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Causes and Spread of Infection Unit 22 ICO2 Q1 1.1 * Bacteria are unicellular‚ prolcaryotic microorganism found almost in all kinds of habits. Some bacteria are beneficial like those involved in nitrogen fixation and some pathogenic‚ which causes diseases. * Viruses are unicellular‚ tiny organisms which are mostly composed of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) and protein. Its body compromises of head and tail sections. Viruses attach themselves to other organisms and severe infectious diseases
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1.1 What is abuse? Abuse is the infringement of an individual’s human and civil rights by another individual or persons. The following is the definition of abuse in The Protection for Persons in Care Act (PPCA). In this statement‚ "abuse" is defined as mistreatment‚ whether physical‚ sexual‚ mental‚ emotional‚ and financial or a combination of any of them‚ that is reasonably likely to cause death or that causes or is reasonably likely to cause serious physical or psychological harm to a person‚
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one of the most important and common one is the Data Protection Act 1998 – this law states each individuals personal details are to be kept securely locked away‚ this law also protects the services users freedom rights‚ the DPA advise that all service users have a right to privacy and everyone else would need to seek services’ permission to obtain personal records The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) widens the release of unstructured information to third party requests‚ but on the other hand
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Unit 540 Lead positive behavioural support | Positive behaviour support (PBS) is an approach to providing services to individuals who exhibit challenging behaviour. Since the early 1990s‚ PBS has received increasing attention from the behaviour-analytic community. Some behaviour analysts have embraced this approach‚ but others have voiced questions and concerns. Over the past dozen
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